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Sunday, March 05, 2006

In commemoration of International Women’s Day, human rights activists have prepared a report on the condition of Iranian women and the widespread oppression on our nation during the year 1384*; this is however a minute part of the tragic and intolerable conditions that Iranian women are subjected to under the boot of the present rulers. The statistics below are a scant number of cases that the regime itself somehow admits to in its own media: READ MORE

15 women who were arrested for attending a party8 actresses who were at a cast party where there was dancing and alcohol1000 women who were wearing unsuitable and un-Islamic attire (bad veiling)11 women who attended a non-governmentally supervised Friday prayers22 girls for attending a social gathering11 women for attending a party4 for protesting79 for bad veiling and unsuitable and un-Islamic attire150 at the Sufi gathering in Qom72 for lewdnessWomens' website that were filtered and blocked:

*The Iranian calendar (also known as the Jalaali Calendar) is a solar calendar currently used in Iran and Afghanistan. It is observation-based, rather than rule-based, beginning each year on the vernal equinox as precisely determined by astronomical observations from Tehran. The Iranian calendar was legally adopted by the Persian parliament on March 31st, 1925, specifying the adaptation of the calendar from its Zoroastrian origins to the numbering of the year which is representative of year the of Mohammad's migration from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE; the Zoroastrian origins of this is a celebration of the first day of spring, that the year is the "true solar" year "as it has been", and specifying the month names and the number of days in each month. On March 21st the year 1384 will officially end and 1385 will begin.